Monday, May 9, 2011

Getting Soaked

Today we woke up at 6:00 at San Pedro Lodge and took a walk down the hill. There we saw Cock of the Rock the national bird of Peru. It had a red head with a black and gray body. After we walked for about a hour the bus came and picked us up and we rode for another hour. When we turned up at a little town, Jose (our guide) told us that we were going to raft here. We followed him inside the gates and we saw a parrot that could talk. When Meghan said "Hola" to the parrot it squawked back "Hola!". We found our raft guide and he told us that there were bathrooms so we could change into our bathing suits. Afterwards we listened to the guide about how to raft. Then we split into two groups (our family was with two british people called Jack and Charlie. We were in the boat with Angel (our raft guide) and the other group was with another guide that only spoke spanish. It was really fun except Meghan and I didn't get to paddle but otherwise watching everybody paddle was really fun. One time we pulled up next to a water fall and Meghan and I moved to the front so we could get soaked.

When the rafting was finished we pulled up at a town called Atalaya Port. Meghan met a girl called Mikaela who was freinds with Meghan. In Atalya port we got out of the raft and got into a big motorized canoe that we took too Erika Lodge. When we got to the lodge José told us to put our stuff in our room and change our clothes and come back. When we got back he selected 6 people to go zip lining today and the other group would go tomorrow. We were in the group to go today with a couple called Max and Tash. We got ready and then played cards while we waited for our zip linning guide. When we were ready we got rubber boots and backpacks that weighed 15 kg and we started hiking up the hill. At the first platform our guide explained how to zip line. There were two handlebars that he said we had to push up to go and pull down to stop. Daddy went first, then Meghan, then me. It felt so good to be zip linning again but this time was better because I got to go by myself. On the first one, I stopped to quick and had to be rescued but on the others I did fine.
When we got to the last platform our guide tied a rope onto a tree and we all slid down. It was very fun. We walked back to the lodge, ate dinner and went to bed. I love the jungle, the mighty jungle!

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